Native Place

Rabbit-hole explorations into art, nostalgia, and pop culture with (occasionally painfully) long trivia detours and lots of adverbs in brackets

By Aditya Shrivastava

· Launched a month ago

Your English Was Never Wrong

On prepone, good names, and two hundred years of fixing a language we were taught to feel like guests in.

Jun 20•Aditya Shrivastava

Why Your Apartment Looks Like Everyone Else's

A friend told me she loved the new Muji because it didn't look Indian. She meant it as a compliment.

May 17•Aditya Shrivastava

Where Did the Indian Stan Lees Go?

We had Chacha Chaudhary. We had Nagraj. We had Suppandi. We lost them somewhere in the journey of growing up.

May 15•Aditya Shrivastava

Chutney, Bhojpuri, and the Cricket of It All

How an Instagram reel sent me down a rabbit hole through chutney music, West Indies cricket, and a French instrument I had been calling Indian my whole…

May 13•Aditya Shrivastava